Silverton Hill's homebred Havelock returns to Woodbine Race Course for the first time since a 2011 upset in the Play the King Stakes (gr. IIT), heading a field of seven entered in the $250,000 King Edward (Can-IIT) June 24.

Eddie Delahoussaye, widely regarded as one of the greatest riders of all
time, will be so recognized on opening day of Santa Anita's autumn meet on
September 28, as the Great Race Place will card the inaugural Grade 3 &quot;Eddie D.
Stakes&quot; for three-year-olds and up at about 6 1/2 furlongs down the Camino Real
Turf Course.

E.K. Gaylord II's Wilkinson, who registered a stunning 44-1 upset in the American Handicap (gr. IIT) last month, came down with colic June 18 and has been ruled out of the Shoemaker Mile at Betfair Hollywood Park June 30.

Strait of Dover, River Rush and Irish Mission head a well-matched field of 14
Canadian-bred three-year-olds for the C$1 million
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Queen's Plate</a>, Canada's most famous horse race, Sunday at Woodbine.&nbsp;

As Woodbine prepares to hold the 153rd edition of the Queen's Plate June 24, Nick Eaves, the track's president, stunned the crowd at the June 21 post-position draw by revealing that Woodbine may be forced to close next April.

Trainer Garry Simms won last year's running of the Grade 3 Debutante at
Churchill Downs with Flashy Lassie and he will attempt to repeat in the first
graded stakes event in North America for two-year-old fillies with
Blueeyesintherein, the 5-2 morning-line favorite, on Saturday. The Debutante,
which was first run at Churchill Downs in 1895, is the featured race on
Saturday's program.

Comments from the connections of Reckless Abandon, including jockey Adam Kirby, and trainer Clive Cox, after his victory in the Norfolk Stakes (Eng-II) at Royal Ascot. Sponsored by AmWest Entertainment.

Impressive Group 1 One Thousand Guineas heroine Homecoming Queen faces 11
rival fillies in Friday's Group 1 Coronation Stakes going a mile. The Aidan
O'Brien-trained three-year-old, who was last seen finishing fourth behind
Samitar in the Group 1 Irish One Thousand Guineas, is likely to be the trainer's
only representative, as Group 1 victress Maybe has suffered a stone-bruise.

Colour Vision rallied under a strong drive from jockey Frankie Dettori and was able to hold off stablemate Opinion Poll to win the $542,500 Ascot Gold Cup (Eng-I) by a half-length at Royal Ascot June 21.

The National HBPA and its affiliates said they have "zero tolerance" for trainers who use illegal Class 1 and Class 2 substances in racehorses in the wake of about 30 positives for Dermorphin in the Southwest.